Knowing someone inside Google is not enough. I know because I am that someone. When I tried to help a friend whose account had been locked, my internal tickets got no response whatsoever.
Maybe if you know someone in the exactly right team but even this isn't a given. Unauthorized messing with user data gets you fired.
We were spending about a million dollars a year on AdWords. Part of Google's requirements are that we give clients access to the Ad accounts as well. One client did not have Google accounts, so we registered some for them, granted them access, and provided them to them.
Of the dozen or so accounts we set up for that client (it was a group of car dealerships under one high-level umbrella, so separate but together), one got suspended almost immediately by the accounts team.
We submitted a ticket with the accounts team regarding it, and when it was still banned a few months later I finally reached out to our contact at AdWords. She submitted a follow-up ticket with the accounts team.
By the time I left that job about 4 years later, she still had not received a response.
> Unauthorized messing with user data gets you fired.
This is actually very good to know and maybe Google should even blog about it. I end up in a lot of conversations with friends in a stalemate about Google and personal information.
When I make the argument people should be paying more for the software they use and i.e. paying Google for a GSuite account is one of the best decisions people can make.
Many people do not understand when they have a contract with Google and are paying for services, Google doesn't snoop around in personal data.
Why would you trust a company based on stalking users to not do so when their bottom-line depends on it considering they have plausibly-deniable ways to do so without getting caught? (and as the Facebook phone number fiasco proved, even if they do get caught the penalty is a slap on the wrist and can be factored in as costs of doing business)
Maybe if you know someone in the exactly right team but even this isn't a given. Unauthorized messing with user data gets you fired.